Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. But when I go to meetings, I find that people sit more than stand, stretch, or walk. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Later that year, I had begun to notice that I needed to pay more attention to training my attention and to be more intentional about how I was sharing information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. So, what speaks to people? What do people want today? He connected the values of the theater with those of people living in today’s world. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

However, participants had to do this with people shaped sticky notes and a speech bubble. We did a brief share out where I asked people to snap if the target audience that was shared had some similarity or common characteristics to their target audience. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. In addition, the creators of collaboration apps and services are tweaking their offerings to enable people to do more work within their suite of products, so there’s less of a need to jump around. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. These skills are: self-management and attention training. These skills are: self-management and attention training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Understand the Two Different Types of Attention. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Like Burning Man , people camp. Like Maker’s Faires , people…create. And like Bar Camps , people hack. These are best of breed young hackers doing what comes naturally, incited and incented by blazing connections, motivated collaborators, cash reward challenges and future employers’ avid attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

So I asked them to create a pipe cleaner decoration for their name tag if they were hands-on. Also, freely encouraging people to play with a small objective on the table might help some learners pay attention and not check out. That’s why you need energizers. Movement can really help.

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MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. Ellice Engdahl is one of those internet people for me. So, she isn't just Internet People, I assure you. Every thoughtful medium post and every considered tweet, they also get me thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. But for some people, it can actually enhance their learning. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. Images are incredibly effective at capturing our attention quickly, much more so than text alone. This is because our brains process them almost instantly.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Writes all the time for lots of different people, not just Bloomerang. Not that many people are worried that it’s creepy to talk about it during the pandemic but more that they’re just not comfortable talking about it. Nearly 70% of people make gifts to charity during their lifetimes but only 6% leave a bequest.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

People will see that others are supporting your nonprofit online. Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. There are plenty of digital marketing agencies that can help you get your Google Ad campaign up and running, such as Feathr or Getting Attention.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I love referring people to you. And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. People are judging us and viewing us and making decisions about how we treat them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” How come more people don’t know what we do and why? I shared that I have the opportunity to figure out ways to help people understand the work that we do and why it’s important.

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